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Her hair is getting lighter and i guess will be about the color of mine The enclosed $2 is sent $1 by
Martin and $1 by Henry Carlow. I wish you would write me a Hospital letter .
We keep 1 horse and two cows and two hogs we have in a nice little field of corn & we had a nice little
hurl at Gettysburgh Gettysburg , Most historians consider the Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, July 1–
Washington September 1 1863 Dear Mother, I have been thinking to-day & all yesterday about the draft
write about her—dear mother, good bye for present— Walt Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1
little over 3000 names they drew 1056 nearly one in three, while in other wards the proportion was 1
in 6 and 1 in 7 and in the 9th ward 1 in 10.
morning report this morning (and for the last 8 days has been the same) was I—Capt, 2 Sergts 2 Corpls, 1
Davis, 1 October 1863
Curtis to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1863
W ASHINGTON , Thursday, Oct. 1, 1863.
Martin "1 " Henry Carlow In my yesterdays letter I said something about the acknowledgement of the moneys
furlough, his folks live I think in Jamaica, he is a noble boy, he may call upon you, (I gave him here $1
take the plesure of fulfilling my promace a writing to you hoping those few lines will find you well 1
they told me that they had non—than I went into their store room and thear was some nice shirts thear. 1
I then took the 1-40 pm train I did not chang cars again until I got to Chicago Friday evening I got
the copperheads are completely played out My Regiment (the 5th Wis) cast 450 vots all Republican but 1
Well, it is now past midnight, pretty well on to 1 o'clock, & my sheet is most written out—so, my dear
going there and her being out of things she probably was out of some things i had given her that week 1
feet muffled. orders that men should tread light & only speak in whispers— Then between 12 midnight & 1
diarrhea father Ranson Northrop Webster, Monroe co N.Y. some brandy ward A bed 41 Pleasant Borley co A 1
The other $1 is from John D. Martin.
Commanding Co 1, 1st Regt Excelsior Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac Andrew J.
There is a large dance house and pleasure garden a bout 1/ 4 from here they are fixing it up for the
Travis that I would pay $18 a month for the rooms that Mother and I had—that would leave them to pay 15 1/
3 a month increasing our rent $3 and theirs $1 1/3 or if they would not agree to that, that I would take
little almost daily to Major Hapgood's, cor 15th & F st., 5th floor, am apt to be there about 12 or 1.
Boyd to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1864
now I go about pretty much the same as usual—I keep pretty old-fashioned hours, rise early, dine at 1,
The Battle of Chantilly (also the Battle of Ox Hill; Virginia, September 1, 1862), fought between Union
Several efforts to get the bridge had proved futile, when about 1 o'clock, according to orders, Col.
Afternoon and till 9 in the evening, visited Campbell Hospital; attended specially to one case in Ward 1;
; in the bed above, also amputation of the left leg; gave him part of a jar of raspberries; bed No. 1,
These wards are either lettered alphabetically, Ward G, Ward K, or else numerically, 1, 2, 3, &c.
Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where Whitman was first employed on July 1,
Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where Whitman was first employed on July 1,
Brooklyn Soldier, and a Noble One': A Brooklyn Daily Union Article by Whitman, Walt Whitman Review 20, no. 1
Washington February 1 1865 Dear Mother, I sent Jeff a letter three or four days ago, which I suppose
I send $1 for Nancy, the other for you—I may not write again till about the 12th, or perhaps 10th— Tell
Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1 February 1865
fixing A bedroom for George and tried to get mrs Howard to whitewash but i could not i offered her 1
Grant Carroll of Lynn, Massachusetts died at Andersonville on August 1, 1864, and Obed J.
Dixon, ed., National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts: July 1, 1863–December 31, 1865 (Westminster,
next was at Chantilly, The Battle of Chantilly (also called the Battle of Ox Hill; Virginia, September 1,
works (Camden III: 289 Whitman wrote this manuscript sometime after the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–
Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1865
Irwin, 1 May 1865
Attorney Gen'ls Office, August 1, 1865. Mrs. H. J. Cowden, Westfield, Chautauqua, N. Y.
Cowden, 1 August 1865
September 1.
—Battle of Chantilly; The Battle of Chantilly (also the Battle of Ox Hill; Virginia, September 1, 1862
should be truly glad to see you—perhaps best to call at Att'y Gen's office, Treasury Building—say from 1/
Attorney General's Office, September 1, 1865. Dr. D. W. Yandell, Louisville, Kentucky.
Yandell, 1 September 1865
O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 1 November 1865
1.
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?
Archive I: Whitman Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, ed Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:
Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:156.
year may have been 1863 when Lee and Jackson pushed northward until Lee was halted at Gettysburg, July 1–
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
The march referred to took place on December 18" (1:474).
Attorney for the Eastern Dist. of Louisiana, from Jan. 1, 1866, to March 31, 1866, inclusive, - & to
letter of last Thursday—I suppose you got one from me the Saturday before, with some envelopes in, & $1—
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington , Aug. 1, 1866.
Price, 1 August 1866